Tag: climate-shocks
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On Overshoot and Democratizing AI
I had planned to take this weekend off since it’s Labor Day here in the states, but there’s just too much to say… This week, the UN Environment Programme released its new report: Limiting Overshoot – Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return. The report “examines the implications of entering an era of 1.5°C…
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How Climate Shocks Motivate Social Change
Even though September begins on Tuesday, this summer of climate shocks has yet to slow down: record-breaking heat and extreme weather are continuing across much of the northern hemisphere and thousands of people are missing and hundreds of lives are confirmed lost after a glacier’s collapse triggered a flash flood in Nepal and Tibet this…
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The Summer of Climate Shocks Rages On
The summer of 2026 will go down as a summer of climate shocks. “Climate shocks are deviations from normal environmental patterns in the form of droughts, floods, heat waves, or other extreme events that have been exacerbated by climate change” (Saving Ourselves, p. 3). While I write this newsletter, the US and Europe continue to…
